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From: hollis@ucf-cs.UUCP (William )
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: A puzzle with two answers?!? (***spoiler***)
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Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 15:56:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 15:56:07 1984
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Case 2 cannot be true, because if the first person is short, then
he would have said 'I am short'.  If the first person is tall then he would
have said 'I am short'.  If the second person was short, he would say
'The first person said he was short, and so am I' which is what he said, if
however the second person was tall, then he would have had to have said
'The first person said he was tall, and I am short' because he ALWAYS has
to lie, so therefore it must be the case of case 1.

An interesting sidelight, it has been suggested to me that if what the first
cannible said was actually something like 'The sun is blue' then the whole
thing would fall apart, but assume that in this case they all would make
a statement about thier hieghts.

 Ken Hollis

William Kendall Hollis

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